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"According to our findings, the RottenSys malware began propagating in September 2016. By March 12, 2018, 4,964,460 devices were infected by RottenSys," researchers said.

"At this moment, the massive malware campaign pushes an adware component to all infected devices that aggressively displays advertisements on the device’s home screen, as pop-up windows or full-screen ads to generate fraudulent ad-revenues."

I say this every week, but if you are being a Windows fanboy and defending it and calling Linux engineers stupid, you need therapy. There is no argument.

This is just like the wonderful surprises that I used to receive day after day when I was a Windows user. For those who don’t understand this basically says Windows tries to use “a heuristic” which in this case I’m fairly certain is a fancy way of saying whitelist based on how easy this problem is, to decide whether to launch these programs with super user privileges. So if you want to make malware for Windows, just call it installer!

My colleagues scanned their projects and found they are actually using those dependencies. I advice you to do the same, because let’s be honest, you guys don’t even know what you have inside your node_modules.

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